for five years, seeing many of the famous landmarks and historical sights while she was there. After marrying her husband, a native of England, Longshore lived in the U.K. It reminded me a lot of high school.”Ī former teacher and a lifelong writer, Longshore didn’t always have such an intense love of history. “And the Tudor court is full of intrigue and back-stabbing and social climbing. “There isn’t a lot out there for children and teenagers that makes history interesting,” says the Woodland author. Longshore uses these two teenage girls to launch a story of political and romantic intrigue in the Tudor court, a setting that Longshore says may remind many of her readers of high school and its own dangers. “Cat,” who may have been only a teenager when she married, took three people to court with her, including Tylney, who historians suspect may have been a childhood friend. “Gilt” tells the story of Kitty Tylney, a childhood friend of Catherine Howard, Henry’s fifth wife. “Gilt,” Longshore’s first book, is set in the court of King Henry VIII, and starts off what will be a series of books depicting the rise - and fall - of some of England’s most famous queens. Katherine Longshore may be a new author on the young-adult scene, but she’s certainly not sticking to the genre’s standard locales.
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